单词 | spur-gall |
释义 | † spur-galln. Obsolete. A gall caused or produced by the spur. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > chafing or galling gallc1440 navel-gall?1523 spur-galling1566 saddle boil1591 saddle bruise1591 shackle-gall1596 warble1607 pince1610 stickfast1610 saddle galla1637 spur-gall1655 collar-gall1684 saddle mark1687 holster-gall1689 navel-galling1691 gall-spot1713 warble tumour1805 saddle sore1873 1655 T. White Grounds Obed. & Govt. 117 I do not understand those spurgalls of honour, which disquiet their fiery humours. 1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 160 The very spur-gals had made such casements through their skin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). spur-gallv. Obsolete exc. archaic. 1. transitive. To gall (a horse, etc.) with the spur in riding; to injure or disable in this way.Common from c1590 to c1690, frequently in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > cause injury or disease of horse [verb (transitive)] > chafe or gall spur-gall1565 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > urge on > spur > injure by spur-gall1565 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Calx Cruentare equum ferrata calce, to spurgall. 1580 T. Blundeville Foure Offices Horsemanship (rev. ed.) T iiij b When a Horse is shouldered by meanes of some outward cause,..or his sides spurgalled. 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. A4 These are those ranck-riders of Art, that haue so spur-gald your lustie wingd Pegasus, that now he begins to be out of flesh. 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 17 Over-will'd Men, who, if they once Plot a Designe studiously, and conclusively, will spurgall all possibilities to the Bones. 1689 D. Granville in Remains (1861) I. 42 Our present Low Country cavaliers, who have mounted us (and shewn themselves allready soe ill riders as to have spur-galled us). 1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 47 Lest the Jade be spur-gall'd and tyr’d, and throw us down. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. x. 305 The lazy monks that have ridden us so long, and spur-galled us so hard. 2. figurative. To gall severely, in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > chafe or excoriate flayc1250 to-shell1377 gallc1440 excoriate1497 chafe1526 to pare to (also beyond, etc.) the quick1538 spur-galla1555 gald1555 raw1593 begall1597 rub1618 rind1893 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)] quelmeOE eatc1000 martyrOE fretc1175 woundc1175 to-fret?c1225 gnawc1230 to-traya1250 torment1297 renda1333 anguish1340 grindc1350 wringc1374 debreakc1384 ofpinec1390 rivea1400 urn1488 reboil1528 whip1530 cruciate1532 pinch1548 spur-galla1555 agonize1570 rack1576 cut1582 excruciate1590 scorchc1595 discruciate1596 butcher1597 split1597 torture1598 lacerate1600 harrow1603 hell1614 to eat upa1616 arrow1628 martyrize1652 percruciate1656 tear1666 crucify1702 flay1782 wrench1798 kill1800 to cut up1843 a1555 N. Ridley Wks. (Parker Soc.) 148 If I were as well learned as was St. Paul, I would not bestow much against them, further than to gall them, and spurgall too. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. T3v Againe with the Atheist he spur-gals mee, in that I iested at heauen. 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxviii. sig. P5v We misvse all our actions, wee spur-gall and tyre them. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. iii. 16/2 Like to a Post I'le runne through thicke and thin To scourge Iniquity and spurgall sinne. 1716 E. Baynard Health 45 For one half that Dies, Are spur-gal'd by his Flies, And flead out of their lives. Derivatives spur-galling n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > chafing or galling gallc1440 navel-gall?1523 spur-galling1566 saddle boil1591 saddle bruise1591 shackle-gall1596 warble1607 pince1610 stickfast1610 saddle galla1637 spur-gall1655 collar-gall1684 saddle mark1687 holster-gall1689 navel-galling1691 gall-spot1713 warble tumour1805 saddle sore1873 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. clv. f. 106, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The Farcyn..is..ingendred in the bodye, or else of some outwarde hurte, as of spurgallyng. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. vi. 973 He is one..that cannot ride a horse without spur-galling. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. i. 41 How commeth the Farcin to the creature?.. Sometimes by enter-firing, and hewing, and lastly by spur-galling. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 60 Spare your selfe, lest you bejade..your owne opiniaster wit, and make the very conceit it selfe blush with spur-galling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1655v.a1555 |
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